Virus Alert !

[Nyarlathotep]

Be aware of a new virus, called My doom.

It's spreading fast and is a high risk, be warned !

This may belong in the tech forum, but I doubt everyone is reading that...

[lowzeewee]

Thanks for the warning,luckily I don't open email attachments at all...

[Atomic Mitten]

You can get a virus just surfing the web Lowzeewee. ;)

[lowzeewee]

"This is a mass-mailing and peer-to-peer file-sharing worm that arrives in an email message"

[Atomic Mitten]

I didn't say this particular virus Lowzee,I just thought that some others might think they were safe,if they just don't open E-Mails.

Remote Access Component

The worm opens a connection on TCP port 3127 suggesting remote access capabilities.

Denial of Service Payload

On the first system startup on February 1st or later, the worm changes its behavior from mass mailing to initiating a denial of service attack against the sco.com domain. This denial of service attack will stop on the first system startup of February 12th or later, and thereafter the worm's only behavior is to continue listening on TCP port 3127.

from DOC.

[Nyarlathotep]

Probably the first time I'm going to bump a thread here... nevertheless, I think this needs to be on top for a little while :)

*kick*

[Atomic Mitten]

According to a news bulletin about the Doom virus,it also collects online banking details,such as passwords etc.

Make sure you all have a firewall running,Zone alarm is a free firewall,also a good one is Sygate Personal firewall.Available from sygate.com

http://smb.sygate.com/support/documents/spf/spf_download.htm

[Cyborg]

If it's just an e-mail virus, then it's just to make sure you have your brain running when browsing your inbox...

[Atomic Mitten]

The problem with this virus is that if one of your friends gets it,it will send you an e-mail using your friends E-MAil address !

So recognising it is very difficult indeed. :O

[Vanguard3000]

Even if a friend sends you an attachment, I think checking the file, or even asking your friend if he/she sent it willingly would be the wise thing to do.

Thanks for the warning, Nyar.

[Atomic Mitten]

If anyone wants to check their computers are safe online,I suggest visiting this site :-

http://scan.sygate.com/

Click on quick scan,then if a problem is apparent on the other scan options.

[Nyarlathotep]

To be honest, I delete every e-mail with an attachement currently.

[ordos45]

I keep doing that too.  The Today Show this morning said 1 in 9 e-mails are probably carrying it today.

[Timenn]

Hmm, I don't know what to think of virus warnings.

They may sound good of people who try to prevent disasters happening to others. But the problems is that it doesn't work that way exactly.

Whenever there comes a report about a virus, it already did its strike, and all the good virus scanner have updated their customers with the necassary files. So mostly the warnings are too late for the victims, and the ones with an updated virus scanner.

Ofcourse some people are helped with it, and posting this warnings on a forum is a much better idea then making a forward mail. Because an email will go to all kind of people with everyone forwarding it, and so collecting an entire bunch of email-adresses, and they just have to get to the wrong person, and that person has a huge collection to test its virus at. This is the same route spammers get email-adresses btw...

[Nyarlathotep]

To check if your infected, check this page from McAfee

[gryphon]

a report of the worm can be found here.